0.9.1 release

0.9.1 release

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Hi all,

	I have just released the first 0.9 "final" packages. The release
is 0.9.1 to make clear that it is successor of all 0.9.0pre,beta,rc
packages. Hopefully, thanks to all your reports, packages can be compiled
on many linux machines without major problems.
	Our goal for further releases (including development ones) is to
reduce the development cycles (seems that having difference between stable
and development for more than two years is not very good for the
maintaince purposes).
	What's left for 1.0: The sequencer instrument layer will be moved 
completely to the user space. Our goal is also the implementation of the 
wavetable MIDI drivers. I am sure that I forgot to something else, but we 
will try to do our best.

				Have fun and stay tuned,
						    Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs



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Re: 0.9.1 release

[Paul Davis]

>	What's left for 1.0: The sequencer instrument layer will be moved 
>completely to the user space. 

how about moving the entire sequencer into user-space? kernel 2.5
(with POSIX clock support) makes this entirely viable, i think. 

the only ugliness i can see is that inter-thread communication is
harder to make totally robust in the face of system/process shutdown
than user<->kernel communication (c.f. JACK).

there is other stuff that needs to be done for 1.0, not necessarily
development. we need GUI tools for many common user operations. we
need *much* better documentation than we have now. i also think that
the firmware-loading-from-file needs to be done too, and we might need
to make more use of tasklets.

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Re: 0.9.1 release

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:33:20 -0500,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >	What's left for 1.0: The sequencer instrument layer will be moved 
> >completely to the user space. 
> 
> how about moving the entire sequencer into user-space? kernel 2.5
> (with POSIX clock support) makes this entirely viable, i think. 
> 
> the only ugliness i can see is that inter-thread communication is
> harder to make totally robust in the face of system/process shutdown
> than user<->kernel communication (c.f. JACK).

yes.  therefore i've thought of keeping the routing stuff left on the
kernel side and the scheduler stuff into the user-space using a
high-resolution timer.  the merit of this way is that you don't need
a root-priv. server for routing.

also, the event-packet communication should be improved e.g. via
mmap, etc.


> there is other stuff that needs to be done for 1.0, not necessarily
> development. we need GUI tools for many common user operations.

yes.  i'd love to have a nice looking mixer.

> we need *much* better documentation than we have now.

yep.

> i also think that the firmware-loading-from-file needs to be done
> too,

hehe :)
in fact, there are many drivers holding a big static boot-image,
such as nm256, ymfpci, maestro3, etc.  they can diet, too.


> and we might need  to make more use of tasklets.

agreed.  for example, mpu401-uart may use them well.


Takashi


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Re: 0.9.1 release

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Jaroslav Kysela hat gesagt: // Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> I have just released the first 0.9 "final" packages. 

Hoohoo! I think, for most 'users' this is even a bigger
step than the inclusion into the kernel was. 

Congratulations.

ciao
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Re: 0.9.1 release

[Bob Ham]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 22:03, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> I have just released the first 0.9 "final" packages.

In a word: w00t! :)


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Re: 0.9.1 release

[Jordi Mallach]

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:03:37PM +0100, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 	I have just released the first 0.9 "final" packages.

Want to join into the charm of "thank you"s, "congratulations" and "way
to go"s. I've been into ALSA packaging for a little while, and I must
say the current Debian-Alsa team is very happy with how things are going
on. Thanks not only for the release, but for your kind and quick replies
to our requests.

> The release
> is 0.9.1 to make clear that it is successor of all 0.9.0pre,beta,rc
> packages.

Cool, this will avoid us using weird stuff like 0.9.0release or
something like that, well thought :)

Jordi
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